Mothership, by Martin Leicht and Isla Neal

I was going to not review this book because I loved it so much, but then I realized that I was giving up a golden opportunity to review a novel about pregnant teenagers in outer space. Let me repeat that in case you didn't get it the first time-this novel is about PREGNANT TEENAGERS IN OUTER SPACE. The last time I got this excited about a plot was the killer unicorns in Rampant and Ascendent by Diana Peterfreund.

Smart and sassy Elvie got herself knocked up by the gorgeous idiotic Cole shortly before he runs away. Since her father has no idea what to do with her, he sends Elvie off to a school based on a spaceship orbiting Earth. The school has classes special for their expectant mothers, like prenatal water yoga (or something weird like that) as well as normal classes like English, and a staff including doctors to deliver the babies on the way. Then one day, while ditching aforementioned yoga class a bunch of space ninjas (her words not mine) burst into the ship and proceed to kill all the teachers and take over. Then they reveal to the girls that the teachers were all aliens, and all the girls were accepted onto the ship for a specific reason. And then one of the space ninjas takes off his helmet and reveals himself to be the long lost Cole. Yes, this story is that good. Though I shouldn't have to tell you that. After all, it's about PREGNANT TEENAGERS IN OUTER SPACE.

I was initially attracted to this book because of the pretty cover (pink and purple!), then I read the summary and made up my mind that I absolutely must read this book, then I read the short excerpt on the back and starting yelping with excitement about how I couldn't wait to start it. And it didn't disappoint in the slightest. This book is as random and obscure as I hoped it would be, in an awesomely put together and not at all messy way.

5 stars.

 
Teen pregnancy is never easy—especially not when extraterrestrials are involved. The first in a new trilogy.

Elvie Nara was doing just fine in the year 2074. She had a great best friend, a dad she adored, and bright future working on the Ares Project on Mars. But then she had to get involved with sweet, gorgeous, dumb-as-a-brick Cole--and now she’s pregnant.

Getting shipped off to the Hanover School for Expecting Teen Mothers was not how Elvie imagined spending her junior year, but she can go with the flow. That is, until a team of hot commandos hijacks the ship--and one of them turns out to be Cole. She hasn’t seen him since she told him she’s pregnant, and now he’s bursting into her new home to tell her that her teachers are aliens and want to use her unborn baby to repopulate their species? Nice try, buddy. You could have just called.

So fine, finding a way off this ship is priority number one, but first Elvie has to figure out how Cole ended up as a commando, work together with her arch-nemesis, and figure out if she even wants to be a mother--assuming they get back to Earth in one piece.